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peter_p

Richard Donovan passes
« on: March 05, 2007, 08:18:05 PM »
Richard "Dick" Donovan recently passed away in Endicott, NY. Co-author with Richard Murdoch on the seminal compendium of golf books, he was as instrumental as anyone in the study and expansion of golf course architecture. He will be missed.
My condolences to his family.

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PThomas

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Re:Richard Donovan passes
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2007, 08:23:06 PM »
Dick was a very kind man ...I will definitely miss him

condolences to his family
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ed_getka

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Re:Richard Donovan passes
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2007, 08:23:18 PM »
Dick was a very nice guy that I knew from my book collecting days. He had emergency heart surgery around the holidays a few months ago while in Las Vegas for a Golf Collectors Society event. Unfortunately Dick didn't recover well. His friends thought highly enough of him to charter a jet to fly him closer to home while he fought to recover.
   Best wishes to his family as they recover from their loss.
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Tim_Cronin

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Re:Richard Donovan passes
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2007, 12:53:57 AM »
Dick was one of the great guys ever. Last time I saw him was at the first tee of Chicago Golf Club at the 2005 Walker Cup, a traditional guy at a most traditional course. We both wondered if Charles Blair Macdonald would brook the notion of television towers on his course.
He and Joe Murdoch set the standard with "The Game of Golf and the Printed Word," and Dick and Rand Jerris recently reset it. Dick was planning to play plenty of golf once that work was done. Hope he got in more than a few rounds before he took ill in Las Vegas.
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Gene Greco

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Re:Richard Donovan passes
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2007, 05:06:34 AM »
  An old friend from the Golf Collector's Society who will be sorely missed. Last saw him in Far Hills at a GCS meeting a few years ago and fondly remember having dinner with him during the '95 Open at Shinnecock.

My condolenses to his wife and family.

   
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wsmorrison

Re:Richard Donovan passes
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2007, 07:04:51 AM »
I only met Dick one time at Golf House.  Coincidentally, we had spoken on the phone a few days before that and several times over the years.  Dick was very kind and helpful to my project.  His value to the golf architecture archive and research center will be hard to make up.  My condolences to his family and friends.
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TEPaul

Re:Richard Donovan passes
« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2007, 07:44:44 AM »
A good guy. Last time I saw Dick was at the USGA Annual meeting in Atlanta. The both of us went outside to have a cigarrette. It seems like we were the only two guys out of about a thousand who smoked. Dick had a massive heart attack a few months ago and never really recovered.
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KBanks

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« Reply #7 on: March 06, 2007, 09:55:02 AM »
Peter, thanks for that. Dick Donovan was indeed a very kind gentleman and a scholar.

Ken
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George_Bahto

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Re:Richard Donovan passes
« Reply #8 on: March 06, 2007, 06:54:14 PM »
Dick will be missed by all who knew him.

Dick was very instrumental in my writing, what went on to become,  The Evangelist of Golf.  

In the late 1980 we spoke about my continuing research of Seth Raynor at the time and he encouraged me to continue for “there is a great story there that needs to be told, George. You won’t make any money but you’ll have fun with it” ....... well of course the “Raynor story” led to CBM and there it went.

We had Dick and Angie for dinner a number of years ago - a great night.

He will be missed.
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Dave Maberry

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Re:Richard Donovan passes
« Reply #9 on: March 14, 2007, 09:34:12 PM »
Has anyone seen "The Game of Golf and The Printed Word 1566-2005" by Richard Donovan and Rand Jerris? The update of Donovan/Murdoch book is talked about in above link in post #1.
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